A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4

by Henry Charles Lea

[327] Ibidem, Lib. 82, fol. 228; Lib. 939, fol. 108; Lib. 942, fol. 38.—MSS. of Royal Library of Copenhagen, 218^b, p. 168.

[328] Bibl. nacional, MSS., S, 121, fol. 54.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Leg. 1157, fol. 155.

[329] MSS. of Library of Univ. of Halle, Yc, 20, T. I.

[330] Bibl. nacional, MSS., PV, 3, n. 20.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 99; Leg. 2, n. 10.

[331] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 939, fol. 342; Leg. 552, fol. 1.—MSS. of Royal Library of Copenhagen, 218^b, p. 260.

[332] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 926, fol. 25; Lib. 1002.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 1.—MS. penes me.

[333] Hurter, Nomenclator Theologiæ Catholicæ, I, 158.—Nic. Antonii Bibl nova, a.v. Ludovicus de Leon.—Greg. Mayans y Siscar, Vida del M. Luis de Leon, n. 37.—Ticknor, History of Spanish Literature, II, 87, 89 (Ed 1864).

There is considerable literature on the subject of Fray Luis’s troubles with the Inquisition. The records of his first trial, omitting superfluities, occupy 925 pages in Vols. X and XI of the Coleccion de Documentos inéditos. His second trial has more recently seen the light, with an introduction by Padre Francisco Blanco García, Madrid, 1896. Fray Luis de Leon. Eine Biographie aus der Geschichte der spanischen Inquisition u. Kirche (Halle, 1866) by Dr. C. A. Wilkens is an eloquent and sympathetic account of his career, while Dr. Fr. Heinrich Reusch’s Luis de Leon u. der spanische Inquisition (Bonn, 1873) is a scholarly investigation of the case, in so far as documents accessible at the time would permit. The Lic. Arango y Escandon has contributed the Proceso del P. M. Luis de Leon (Mexico, 1856, revised and enlarged in 1866), in which he justifies both the Inquisition and the sufferer. The latest contribution to the subject, based on additional documents, is by the Dominican Fray Luis G. Alonso Getino, in the Revista de Archivos (1903-4) in justification of the Inquisition. Padre Blanco has also written an Estúdio biográfico-critico de Fr. Luis de Leon, which I have not had an opportunity of consulting. The old rivalry between Dominicans and Augustinians seems to be still alive.

[334] Azpilcueta Comment. Cap. Si quis autem, n. 44-47.—Coleccion de Documentos, X, 193; XI, 276.

[335] Coleccion, X, 261; XI, 256, 259.